On 14/09/06, Kieran Tully <Kieran.Tully at acm.org> wrote:
> This will work, but busy-waiting for I/O seems inelegant.
> Win32 has file notfication; surely Linux has something similar?
I suspect something like dnotify/inotify (i forget which is
deprecated) might give you what you're looking for.
Steve
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